Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
Eckert v. Levin, 2015 WL 859530 (N.D.Ill. 2015) examines claim preclusion (“res judicata”) in the context of an aborted settlement agreement reached in an earlier state court breach of contract case. The plaintiff sued the attorney who represented the plaintiff’s adversary in the prior state court case (plaintiff in the Federal case was the defendant …
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A limited liability company (LLC) is generally lauded as a flexible business entity that provides the limited liability of a corporation with the tax attributes of a partnership (flow-through, not double, taxation). Flexibility is another oft-cited hallmark of the LLC form as its members can be one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships or even other …
The Northern District of Illinois (Fidlar Technologies v. LPS Real Estate Data Solutions, 2015 WL 1059007 (N.D.Ill. 2015) granted summary judgment for a defendant real estate analytics firm in a computer fraud case filed by a software firm who makes paper real estate records available on-line for various county recorders offices across the country. The …